We're clean cut off from the world for a little while." "An' this is whar poor old Long Jim becomes the most vallyble uv us all," said Jim Hart.

"It's a lucky thing that I've got a kind uv stove an' buffalo meat an' venison an' other kinds uv game.

I'm jest willin' to bet that you four hulkin' fellers will want to lay aroun' an' eat all the time." "I wouldn't be surprised, Jim, if we didn't get hungry once in a while," said Henry, with a smile.
Two more days passed, and the ice on the lake neither melted nor grew thicker, and they were as well shut in and others were as well shut out as if they had been on a lone island in the Pacific Ocean.

Once they saw a thin column of smoke, only a faint blue spire very far away, which Henry said rose from an Indian camp fire.
"It's several miles from here," he said, "and it's just chance that they are there.

They don't dream that we are here." Nevertheless, they did not light the fire in their furnace again for two days.